Reality will tame Duterte – PNoy

Outgoing President Aquino, who roundly criticized incoming President Rodrigo Duterte during the recent presidential campaign, said the reality of running the country should tame his successor’s violent instincts. “We’re not a dictatorship; we’re bound by laws,” Aquino told The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, saying the hyperbole of the campaign trail would soon fade. Once he takes over on June 30, Duterte, who has promised to kill thousands of criminals to guarantee law and order, will “be fully grounded in reality as to what can be done, when it can be done, how it has to be done,” Aquino said. Since taking office in 2010, Aquino has overseen an economic boom in which foreign investment and tourism numbers hit record levels, business thrived, and anti-corruption efforts helped the country cast off its old reputation as the “Sick Man of Asia.” PARTING SHOT — President Aquino, who leaves the presidency in [...]